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The National Council of French Women (French: Conseil National des femmes françaises, CNFF) is a society formed in 1901 to promote women's rights.The first members were mainly prosperous women who believed in using non-violent means to obtain rights by presenting the justice of the cause.
Under her presidency the suffrage section of the National Council of French Women was created in 1906. Sarah Monod was a member of journal L'Avant-Courriere (founded in 1893), and even joined the French Union for Women's Suffrage .
The French women who participated in the delegation were de Witt-Schlumberger; [44] Cécile Brunschvicg, a founder of the French Union for Women's Suffrage and its first general secretary; [45] and Marguerite Pichon-Landry, [44] chair of the legislation section of the National Council of French Women. [46]
Julie Siegfried (born Julie Puaux: 13 February 1848 – 28 May 1922) was a French feminist. She served as president of the Conseil National des femmes françaises (CNFF/ literally, "National Council of French Women") between 1913 and 1922.
In May 1919 the French Chamber of Deputies voted for unrestricted woman suffrage by 344 to 97. Women assumed they would soon get the vote. Cecile Brunschvicg and Marguerite Pichon Landry, leading members of the CNFF and UFSF, brought the women's objections to the education commission to the attention of government ministers. [7]
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908. [12] Most of them were from bourgeois or intellectual backgrounds. [13] The leaders were Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [12] The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909.
Lefaucheux was President of the National Council of French Women from 1954 to 1964. Her husband died in a car accident in 1955, and following his death, she became France's Representative to the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations, one of the committees of the Economic and Social Council, where she assumed the presidency.
Maugeret's Christian feminism defended the family as the "basic social cell", and thought that mothers should stay at home, but fought for the rights of women who were forced to work. [4] In 1901 the National Council of French Women (Conseil National des Femmes Français) was founded, headed by Sarah Monod. The majority of the members were ...